Homo Sapiens Idaltu, New Species Or Homo sapiens? Herto Man. Posted: May 31, 2025 | Last updated: June 6, 2025. Fossils once thought to represent the oldest dated Homo sapiens remains are now ...

Since the discovery of Neanderthals nearly two centuries ago, paleoanthropologists have grappled with an evolutionary mystery: Why did Homo sapiens survive as a species while their stockier ...

There were at least nine Homo species — including H. sapiens — distributed around Africa, Europe and Asia by about 300,000 years ago, according to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be ...

Tradition says that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens were intellectually distinct. But archaeologists and anthropologists increasingly insist that the intellectual divide between the two species ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred.

The species epithet humoinsapiens is a combination of two Latin words, "humo," which in English means "to cover with soil, to bury," and "insapiens," meaning "unwise." ...

The brains belonging to the extinct species, known as Homo naledi, ... The burials are older than any known Homo sapiens burials by at least 100,000 years.

Around 300,000 years ago, at least nine species of the genus Homo, including Homo sapiens, spread across Africa, Europe, and Asia.All eventually disappeared, except for Homo sapiens. Neanderthals and ...

My viewpoint is that homo sapiens are the vilest species to ever roam the Earth. We destroy anything which impedes our ability to attain our goals of greed, exploitation, power, control.

Homo is the genus that includes modern humans and their close relatives. The genus is estimated to be between 1.5 and 2.5 million years old. All species except Homo sapiens are extinct. Homo ...

The species Homo sapiens (or “wise man”) began to evolve about 300,000 years ago, and eventually won out the evolutionary battle and became the only Homo species to reign on Earth about 40,000 ...